I would like File/New to create for me a blank slate. Instead, it loads some previous project. How do I change this? How does this behaviour even make sense?

Why would "New" mean anything except "clean", "fresh" or "blank"?

I love this program, and I'm getting a lot accomplished with it so far, but Blender is by far the most idiosyncratic, unintuitive user experience I've ever experienced in software.

Everything "Works" so I can't really complain that much, but I can't figure out simple things sometimes.

I still can't accomplish the simple task of closing a window; Yes I've watched the Youtube videos, I see them dragging the upper right corner in that weird way. I've tried the same thing, but with no response.

What kind software designer made Blender? Who ARE you? How does your mind work?

This is even weirder. My Start-up file sets itself, without my knowledge and without my permission. I swear I am not hitting Ctrl-U at any point while working on a project, yet at random, when booting up Blender, the startup file will be some past iteration of my project. I have to repeatedly select-all, delete and rest my Start up file. All so that my File/New works as it's supposed to.

What if a user didn't realize what was going on and began working on this file without realizing it's an old copy? How frustrating that would be for them!

What is the damned purpose of this behaviour?! It makes no ****** sense.

DubiousDrewski wrote:This is even weirder. My Start-up file sets itself, without my knowledge and without my permission. I swear I am not hitting Ctrl-U at any point while working on a project, yet at random, when booting up Blender, the startup file will be some past iteration of my project. I have to repeatedly select-all, delete and rest my Start up file. All so that my File/New works as it's supposed to.

I would be willing to bet that at some point during your project you made a change to your keymap or addons and clicked 'save as default'.

Yes, its annoying, and separating project prefs from application prefs is being worked on.

That person is a ******* moron. An IDIOT. What the hell are you doing designing software you BAFOON!